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New Scientist is kicking off a new series of articles entitled The Biq Question to attempt to answer the unanswerable and crack open life's greatest puzzles

A bacterium seems to cause Alzheimer's as well as gum disease, hinting that our microbial denizens may be involved in many diseases we thought weren't infectious

While North America is gripped by a polar vortex, no cold records have been broken. Meanwhile, 33 records for heat have been set this month in the southern hemisphere

Tide gauges overlook compaction of shallow sediments

Julie McDowall (@JulieAMcDowall) usually writes about nuclear war, in fact she’s got a book on that subject coming out soon. But, a few days ago she mentioned on Twitter that she has synaesthesia (the condition where the senses are “mixed up”, so that a person with condition can smell music or see colours when they … Continue reading "What does your name taste like?"

How many of us will be healthy enough to ride off into the golden sunset of a long retirement?

Hundreds gather in Paris to commemorate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s most enduring work

Drax project is first of a raft of schemes poised to come online in the UK

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction reveals plumbonacrite mineral

Mendeleev used the periodicity of the chemical elements to organise a chart that we now refer to quite obviously as the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements. He did it 150 years ago. This anniversary year chemists are celebrating his “invention”. Trouble is lots of them don’t think the classic PT is the way we should … Continue reading "Still arguing about the periodic table 150 years later"

A $60 million facility will start to hunt for element 119, 120, or both, this spring

An area twice the size of Texas is at risk of degradation. Can scientists turn the tide?

Warming seas are exacerbating sea star wasting disease and imperiling the sunflower star

Detailed timeline shows how little-known Denisovans traded off with Neanderthals at cave

Cluster with exchangeable solvent ligands mimics the oxygen-evolving complex in photosynthesis

Eternal flame

In the frozen woods of western New York state, light shimmers from inside a grotto at Eternal Flame Falls. Even in winter after the waterfall ices over, visitors can ignite this natural gas seepage coming from the rock formation below the falls and watch the flame emerge again. Eternal Flame Falls stands out among other natural flames because it’s so close to a running waterfall. Also, the content of the natural gas it emits is different—it is unusually high in ethane and propane. Читать дальше...